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Sentences starting with somewhat

Somewhat thus a young rose-tree might feel, which for the first time receives the support of the prop to which it is tied by the careful gardener. [10]
Somewhat later it was mentioned that Tom was to study no more at present, whereupon her little ladyship exclaimed-- "'Tis a pity, 'tis a pity! [5]
Somewhat dazed by this interview which had been so suddenly forced upon her, Janet remained seated on the platform. [9]
Somewhat to my surprise, I found myself making occasional, unexpected witticisms that drew laughter and applause. [9]
Somewhat to his surprise, he did not appear to make much headway. [4]
Somewhat is possible of resistance and of persistence and of creation to this power, which will foil all emulation. [6]
Somewhat to the jeopardy of the academic standard that my father expected me to sustain, our rooms became a rendezvous for many clubable souls whose maudlin, midnight attempts at harmony often set the cocks crowing. [9]
Somewhat after one in the afternoon, Tom resignedly underwent the ordeal of being dressed for dinner. [5]
Somewhat abashed and ill at ease, the Consul-General took it. [11]
Somewhat reassured by her account of the service she was required to render, Mrs Jiniwin made her appearance in a flannel dressing-gown; and both mother and daughter, trembling with terror and cold--for the night was now far advanced--obeyed Mr Quilp's directions in submissive silence. [12]

Sentences ending with somewhat

After a while the weather grew milder, and the clouds lifted somewhat. [5]
Sam Price's were the approved methods in that section of the country, though Sam had overdone them somewhat. [9]
It is true that if you lay it cold on the anvil and hammer away on it for a while it warms up somewhat. [6]
These had high, steep banks on each side, and every time we flew down one bank and scrambled up the other, our party inside got mixed somewhat. [5]
When the Judge says he would n't have believed of Abraham Lincoln that he would have made such an attempt as that he reminds me of the fact that he entered upon this canvass with the purpose to treat me courteously; that touched me somewhat. [7]
One of my prescriptions for longevity may startle you somewhat. [6]
Dinner 'half a can of mincemeat divided up and served around, which strengthened us somewhat. [5]
The latter has been recently reorganized with a new director, in accordance with the Wagner notions somewhat. [4]
If you stay a month, you reduce this average somewhat. [5]
About the year 1862, having heard of a mesmerist in Portland who was treating the sick by manipulation, we visited him; he helped us for a time, then we relapsed somewhat. [5]

Short sentences using somewhat

A somewhat Augean task! [9]
Manners," I answered somewhat testily. [9]
He looked somewhat shamefaced. [9]
He smiled somewhat sadly. [9]
The sight somewhat reassured her. [10]

Sentences containing somewhat two or more times

The Secretary of this association was getting somewhat tired of the office, and the office was getting somewhat tired of him. [6]
He was tenacious, overbearing, self-willed, somewhat silent and also somewhat bad-tempered. [11]
The next morning Judge Short, looking somewhat dejected after the overnight conference he had had with his wife, was innocently and somewhat ostentatiously engaged in tossing quoits with me in front of the inn, when Miss Thorn drove up in a basket cart. [9]
As a lecturer is public property, we may remark, that his outer garment (toga) was of cheap stuff and somewhat worn, and that his general style and appearance of dress and manner (habitus, vestitusque) were somewhat provincial. [6]
Somewhat strange, and for certain somewhat evil, had befallen. [10]
The mouth had a somewhat set sweetness, even as the face was somewhat fixed in its calm. [11]

More example sentences with the word somewhat in them

You carried out your undertaking well to the end, though by somewhat overpowering means. [10]
Smith was a young man of about twenty-eight, vain and no doubt somewhat "bumptious," and it is easy to believe that Wingfield and the others who felt his superior force and realized his experience, honestly suspected him of designs against the expedition. [4]
He will show you two letters of mine on this subject, one somewhat General, and the other relating to named persons; they are not different in principle. [7]
How agreeable do you suppose it is to have your well-meaning friends shout and screech at you, as if you were deaf as an adder, instead of only being, as you insist, somewhat hard of hearing? [6]
Ball inferred that you had a somewhat singular way of seeing people. [9]
In July, Goodman wrote that both Mackay and Jones had become somewhat diffident in the matter of huge capitalization. [5]
On enquiry he would find that they were adapted to live under widely different climates, and that they differed somewhat in bodily constitution and mental disposition. [1]
It was a wonderful dream, in which he found the way, as he thought, to atone somewhat to this man for a dark injury done. [11]
Andreas followed her, with the leech, a man of middle height, whose shrewd and well-formed head, bald but for a little hair at the sides, was set on a somewhat ungainly body. [10]
Austen suddenly remembered, with an irresistible smile, that one of the reasons which he had assigned for his visit to the capital was to hear this very speech, to see how Mr. Crewe would carry off what appeared to be a somewhat difficult situation. [9]
Cousin Maud hastened with all zeal to do honor to friends and guests so dear; but as she reached the door she stood still as in doubt, and signed to me so that I perceived that somewhat had gone wrong. [10]
He presented himself with a somewhat forlorn countenance to Dr. Fordyce Hurlbut, as suffering from some of the less formidable symptoms of that affection. [6]
I was driving with a friend, the other day, through a somewhat dreary stretch of country, where there seemed to be very little to attract notice or deserve remark. [6]
I hope Mr. Wilson will soon allow me to dispense with the nurse; she is well enough, no doubt, but somewhat too obsequious; and not, I should think, to be much trusted; yet I was obliged to trust her in some things. [14]
A grizzled cut wig sat somewhat awry under his bearskin hat. [9]
When the doctor who had been sent to me had finished his task of sewing up the wound and left us, an elderly woman entered, whose rank in life was somewhat difficult to determine. [10]
During the years which immediately followed his departure from college, Warner led the somewhat desultory and apparently aimless life of many American graduates whose future depends upon their own exertions and whose choice of a career is mainly determined by circumstances. [4]
This detestable practice, which I was almost proscribed for condemning somewhat too epigrammatically a little more than twenty years ago, came to us, I suspect, in a considerable measure from the English "general practitioners," a sort of prescribing apothecaries. [6]
I insist that whether I shall be a whole man or only the half of one, in comparison with others is a question in which I am somewhat concerned, and one which no other man can have a sacred right of deciding for me. [7]
In the town where she lived was a lady of honorable condition, somewhat past middle age, who was possessed of pretty ample means, of cultivated tastes, of excellent principles, of exemplary character, and of more than common accomplishments. [6]
In a land where all were bon- vivants, where the lowest tradesmen drank wine after dinner, and rum, brandy and water, or sangaree in the forenoon, a somewhat lightsome view of table-virtues might have been expected of the young unmarried planter. [11]
But often nowadays, when you a mile-long sentence from you given and you yourself somewhat have rested, then must you have a touching inquisitiveness have yourself to determine what you actually spoken have. [5]
However, in Normandy, when he read the names on the tombstones and saw the records in the baptismal register of other Jean Jacques Barbilles, who had come and gone generations before, his self-respect was somewhat restored. [11]
I don't know what I expected in Mrs. Scherer--from Maude's description a benevolent and somewhat stupid, blue-eyed German woman, of peasant extraction. [9]
The rail fences were somewhat disturbed, and the cinders of extinguished fires showed the use to which they had been applied. [6]
The "Painter-man" forthwith went out into the rain behind the shed, where a somewhat curious colloquy took place. [9]
Though still somewhat weak from my wound and confinement, after dinner that Sunday I repaired to Gloucester Street. [9]
To form her we must have light and more light--and when it is lighter here the voice of the people down there, which does not sound very delightful up in this hollow space, will diminish somewhat also. [10]
We estimate that we are within seven hundred miles of the Sandwich Islands, and that our average, daily, is somewhat over a hundred miles, so that our hopes have some foundation in reason. [5]
But, as it was, their relations always remained somewhat formal, and Chase never felt quite at ease under a chief whom he could not understand, and whose character and powers he never learned to esteem at their true value. [7]
The editorial, which was written by Mr. Olin Brad, and was in his best Macaulay style, began somewhat humorously by alluding to the curious interest of the public in ancient history, citing Mr. Froude and Mr. Carlyle, and the legend of Casper Hauser. [4]
And before it was won he needed more help than his own somewhat irresolute will could give. [4]
The original nucleus was the Methodist camp-meeting, which, in the season, brought here twenty thousand to thirty thousand people at a time, who camped and picnicked in a somewhat primitive style. [4]
The good woman was somewhat uneasy. [10]
Although our author was somewhat far advanced, and Mr. Prescott had not yet collected his materials, Irving renounced the glorious theme in such a manner that Prescott never suspected the pain and loss it cost him, nor the full extent of his own obligation. [4]
And though I was somewhat awed by the strangeness of that dark, ill-smelling room, and by the rough company in which I found myself, I held my ground, and spoke up as strongly as I might. [9]
My Cousin Robert was somewhat astonished at my application. [9]
Whatever failing there was on his critical side was due to this somewhat uncritical attitude; for it is from his particular friends that the writer is apt to get the most dispassionate consideration and sometimes the coldest commendation. [4]
True, the execution was not nearly so good as at the rehearsal, for Maria sang in a low and somewhat muffled voice, while, spite of Wilhelm's vehement beating of time, the warmth and verve of the day before would not return. [10]
At last I was lucky enough to light on a sturdy wagon, drawn by a pair of serviceable bays, and driven by James Grayden, with whom I was destined to have a somewhat continued acquaintance. [6]
His grey lock was indeed somewhat thin and lacked the firm curl of the former ones; but every one who was not colour-blind must acknowledge that it was grey. [10]
Justice at Danville was a somewhat high-spirited, quarrelsome lady who decided matters oftenest with the stroke of a sword. [9]
And her heart warmed somewhat, too, the while. [5]
Cheyne (pronounced "Chainie") Walk is a somewhat extended range of buildings. [6]
The price per vote was paid in doughnuts, and it depended somewhat on the appetites of the individuals as to the price of the votes. [5]
Thereat he was vexed and answered that as matters were, so might they remain; but that he was somewhat amazed to mark how lightly she had got over that which had spoiled many a day and night for him. [10]
The crater of Vesuvius, as I have before remarked, is a modest pit about a thousand feet deep and three thousand in circumference; that of Kilauea is somewhat deeper, and ten miles in circumference. [5]
It was not very reassuring, what he had to tell; in fact, it was somewhat depressing, the general tightness and the panicky uncertainty, until, after a couple of glasses of Scotch, the financial world began to open a little and seem more hopeful. [4]
The criticism was very gently worded, and the dispatch closed with a somewhat guarded paragraph repeating the government's approbation. [6]
It was a very curious fact that the first train of thoughts Mr. Bernard's small menagerie suggested to him was the grave, though somewhat worn, subject of the origin of evil. [6]
In an extinct variety of the turkey, the top-knot consisted of bare quills surmounted with plumes of down, so that they somewhat resembled the racket- shaped feathers above described. [1]
I was nigh upon seventeen years old; Ann was past seventeen already, and I would have expressed my joy as freely as heretofore but that somewhat lay at my heart, and that was concerning my Ann. [10]
Mr. Billings' summing up was somewhat impassioned, and contained more quotations from the "Book of Arguments. [9]
He had given up the legal profession to take charge of his somewhat impoverished paternal estate, and soon transformed it into one of the most productive in the whole neighbourhood. [10]
There is an unusually fine railway station; so large is it, in fact, that it seemed somewhat overdone, in the matter of size, at first; but at the end of a few months it was perceived that the mistake was distinctly the other way. [5]
He remarked, somewhat unsteadily, that to prolong the controversy would be useless and painful to all concerned, and he infinitely regretted the necessity of putting his suggestion that the rector resign in the form of a resolution . [9]
Papias was somewhat uneasy for he was alarmed at the thought that Pollux might now betray how small a share his master had in his last works--which had brought him higher praise than all he had done previously. [10]
Though it is true I may be somewhat unjust, for I am deeply annoyed. [14]
All the old tricks of Bigot and his La Friponne, which, after the outbreak the night of my arrest at the Seigneur Duvarney's, had been somewhat repressed, were in full swing again, and robbery in the name of providing for defense was the only habit. [11]
But on a tour, somewhat of exploration, he stopped at Chicago. [4]
This third and totally-unexpected shaking-up had caused him to feel somewhat deranged internally, though it had not altered the opinions now so firmly planted in his head. [9]
There is somewhat too much of the jodeling in the Alps. [5]
It seems somewhat too broad for its height, but may be familiarity with it might dissipate this impression. [5]
Resenting therefore the tone he had assumed, I took occasion not only to reiterate my previously expressed opinion somewhat more aggressively, but also went on to insinuate that he was himself distinctly lacking in any real appreciation of what was excellent. [4]
A second letter to Twichell, something more than a month later, shows a somewhat improved condition in the Clemens household. [5]
I am pleased to say that he has been promoted to an upper clerkship, and, in consequence of his rise in office, has taken an apartment somewhat lower down than number "forty-'leven," as he facetiously called his attic. [6]
Her vain attempts to rouse the sleeper, though somewhat pathetic, had in them at the same time something irresistibly ludicrous, and Pollux felt sorely tempted to laugh. [10]
But she, somewhat to my surprise, declined also, and it was finally filled by a young woman from Asquith. [9]
I have neglected to mention that she too had been away almost continuously since our misunderstanding, for the summer in the mountains,--a sojourn recommended for her mother's health; and in the autumn she had somewhat abruptly decided to go East to boarding-school at Farmington. [9]
She came back to London more ravishing than before, and (I use his Lordship's somewhat extravagant language) her suffering had stamped upon her face even more of character and power. [9]
We are accustomed to issue invitations somewhat early, on account of my necessary preparations. [10]
Well, I happen to have in mind a young man who errs somewhat on the other side, and who looks a little like a cliff profile I once saw on Lake George of George Washington or an Indian chief, who stands about six feet two. [9]
Now he hoped to find himself somewhat nearer to the fulfilment of his wishes. [10]
Further words seemed to fail him, and he left the room somewhat awkwardly, followed by Mr. Manning; but the Honourable Hilary appeared to take no notice of this proceeding. [9]
This he promised to do and did; though in place of the somewhat more formal piece he was asked to write, he sent what he called an introductory letter. [4]
He said good-by to Bess in a voice gentle and somewhat broken, and turned hurriedly away. [13]
He was said to be undersized, red-haired, and somewhat freckled. [5]
Dear Sir,--You seem to be somewhat, but not a great deal, wiser than I was at your age. [6]
These, which used to be open, are now covered over, and thus the epitaph becomes somewhat puzzling, as there is nothing to remind one of Venice in walking about the town. [6]
In a letter to be found in the "London Medical Gazette" for January, 1840, Mr. Roberton of Manchester makes the statement which I here give in a somewhat condensed form. [3]
Only two or three days had elapsed since the funeral, when something happened which was to change the drift of Laura's life somewhat, and influence in a greater or lesser degree the formation of her character. [5]
Indeed, I have thought that a society--" "I earned my title," said General Doby, somewhat sheepishly, "fighting on Governor Brown's staff. [9]
It was well-formed, though somewhat narrow, and its clear fairness formed a sharp contrast to his sunburnt face. [10]
Still somewhat exhausted, though his head was clear, he would not be hindered from receiving the deputation for which he had important matters to decide; but this fresh attack of rage revenged itself by a painful headache. [10]
I can believe this, because my own case was somewhat similar, as per my former article. [5]
Over-study hath done this, and somewhat too much of confinement. [5]
The burden of this somewhat comprehensive demonstration lying entirely upon the advocates of this doctrine, it may be left to their mature reflections. [3]
I confess that this little picture of a fire on the hearth so many centuries ago helps to make real and interesting to me that somewhat misty past. [4]
I am to this day profiting somewhat by that experience; for in that brief, sharp schooling, I got personally and familiarly acquainted with about all the different types of human nature that are to be found in fiction, biography, or history. [5]
All the new things here had somewhat turned her silly brain. [10]
He still looked thin and somewhat awkward, but the tall youth promised to become a stately man. [10]
They were kind, they were delightful, they were interested in him--he occasionally thought--as a somewhat anachronistic phenomenon. [9]
By the time they had made the accidental and somewhat astounding discovery that he was a parson, they were willing to overlook it; in view, perhaps, of his compensating accomplishments. [9]
Upon the veranda they encountered Miss Lamont and the artist, whose natural enjoyment of the scene somewhat restored her equanimity. [4]
The fowlers discover these spots by the turf being trampled somewhat bare. [1]
At any rate there is evidence that in the Turkish Empire as late as 1616 tobacco was still somewhat a novelty, and the smoking of it was regarded as vile, and a habit only of the low. [4]
If he does, then there is a question of veracity, not between him and me, but between the Judge and an Authority of a somewhat higher character. [7]
Now, perhaps, its theme is more timely, more likely to receive the attention it deserves, when the smoke of battle has somewhat cleared. [9]
The greeting between them was courteous, but somewhat formal, as Mr. Bradshaw was acting as one of the masters of ceremony. [6]
There is in them an affectation of psychological purpose which is not very well sustained, and a somewhat clumsy introduction of supernatural machinery. [4]

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